very interesting discussion. Thanks for your tips, Fred.In reference to the use of UUID in fstab, I ran into an little problem with that. I used GParted to copy my Mint partition, sda1, to a backup drive, sdb1.I discovered that GParted had copied the UUID for sda1, and now sda1 and sdb1 both had the same UUID and were both mounted at /I had to generate a new UUID for sdb1,

and create a new mount point, and then everything was fine. I could boot into either hard drive, after editing the grub menu.So I think sticking with the old /dev/sdb1 convention is preferable to UUID or labels.

Could have used labels ( LABEL=) instead of UUID or /dev/sdxy as well. I had the same situation. I made a clone of an NTFS partition and had duplicate UUID's. I prefer labels because the probability of duplicate labels is somewhat remote being that the user is in control of the label. But in my case you never know.....

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And added the following line to the etc/fstab: #/dev/219042da-6549-4689-b911-bb7445e25b49 /media/Media ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2This was to moun the "Media" labeled partitation. But it didnt work.

This is everything I have done, I dont really understand the first part of the guide (mounted folder part) of the guide tho. What else do I need to do. I am totally new to linux, so the guide was kinda hard to read.

At first it worked. But "2 Downloads" and "2 Downloads 2" still would not automount. I thought, it must be because of the "spaces" in the partition lable. I tried a few things (like putting " " between the labels in the fstab), it didnt work. So I just removed the lines and called it a day. Well... It seems that didnt do it, now I cant automount ANY partitions at all. So I decided to return the fstab to its default state. This didnt work either, I can now mount (just mount, not automount) every drive, except for media/Media... ???

What is happening? Also, on startup, b4 my computer "goes into the OS", I see the usual Mintlogo, but now under the logo I see a bunch of texts saying its checking for my partitions... This never happened before.

Get rid of all the quotes (") and substitute \040 for the spaces in the mount point.

Linux hates spaces!

Once again either reboot orOpen TerminalType sudo mount -a

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What is happening? Also, on startup, b4 my computer "goes into the OS", I see the usual Mintlogo, but now under the logo I see a bunch of texts saying its checking for my partitions... This never happened before.

That's normal, that's what you want an OS to do. It's just making a normal filesystem check to make sure everything is OK.

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(1) At this point it might be best to just post your entire fstab so we can see what's up

Open TerminalType cat /etc/fstab

(2) Fred, I do apologize for interceding on this issue. This is after all your topic and I'm a poor substitute for you Given the date and your avatar I just assumed you where too busy with "the list" and Rudolph.

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I am thinking about changing my partition label to one without spaces with Gparted (only accessible with the live CD if I am right).I always use underscore for filenames instead of spaces, dunno why I decided to use spaces this time -_-

wht do you mean by mount partions on boot becausre when i tried to install mint i had a 200 gb partrions ready for it but idk why i had to make a new one!!! i was soooo dam angry!!! also why does linux take away goodd features when they upgrade, are they trying to make it less GUI for the beginner users!

Al-linuxnewb wrote:Is it possible to use these instructions to auto-mount a share (from another computer) on boot?

Actually the form of auto mounting remote shares in fstab sort of resembles the mounting of an ntfs or fat32 partition but the syntax and options are different. If I can find it I know there's a how to somewhere in this form and I'll post it's location later. In the mean time there are two other alternatives:

(1) Bookmark the share.

Have your wife "surf" just as she's always done then once the share is found select "Bookmarks" > "Add Bookmark". It will show up under "Places" in Nautilus sort of like a "mapped drive" does in Windows.

a very simple way to modify /etc/fstab to make the partitions be mounted at boot time is opening Nautilus (file explorer) click on the desired partition (right now it's not mounted, but you can see its name on the left panel), and once it is mounted you have to open a terminal and run "less /etc/mtab" to see the last line in it. Copy this line, and paste it as the last line on /etc/fstab. Reboot.

Ready! Your system will boot with that partition mounted, and this way it won't give you an error when using Nautilus and want to click on the default icon of that partition.

This is a HowTo not a request for help. This is how Fred suggests to mount partitions. You'll notice that this howto has managed to survive without anyone coming out of the woodwork suggesting things like ntfs-config, psydm, or any of the other crazy little utilities that are out there.

Oh, BTW , welcome to the forum.

I don't mean to speak for Fred. Perhaps I'm posting out of turn.

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